Can I use this to connect an external hard rive to my iPad Pro?

Would this allow me to plug in an external hard drive (500GB-2TB) to my iPad Pro 12"? I travel a lot and would love to be able to watch my backed up movies and tv shows from my external hard drive on my iPad Pro, with the previous gen it kept saying it was drawing to much power from the iPad. Have they fixed that issue with this new version?